A reality TV personality from Olympia Fields will avoid a conviction if the woman, known for being a "bad girl" on TV, can stay out of trouble for the next year.

In a plea agreement, Judith Jackson, known on the Oxygen network shows she frequented as "Judi Jai," pleaded guilty Monday to disorderly conduct regarding a February altercation in Country Club Hills. Other charges, including resisting arrest, were dropped in exchange for her plea.

Jackson, 26, who has appeared on "Bad Girls Club 7" and other spin-off shows, will serve 12 months of court supervision and pay $500 in restitution to the victim. She will avoid a conviction as long as she does not get arrested during the year of supervision.

During Monday's hearing, Cook County Circuit Court Judge Maureen Delehanty asked a visibly nervous Jackson whether she had anything to say and if she understood the plea agreement.

"I love you," Jackson blurted. "No, sorry. Yes, ma'am."

On Feb. 12, Country Club Hills police arrested Jackson after she got into a dispute with a Shorewood man in which she damaged a car and a cellphone and resisted being arrested, according to police.

Jackson originally was charged with criminal damage to property, but that was reduced to disorderly conduct in the plea deal, according to court records.

Jackson told the Daily Southtown in September that she hoped that telling prosecutors about her charitable works, including donating profits from a fantasy romance novel she had co-written, would result in a more favorable plea agreement.

In September, Jackson also was kicked off a Royal Caribbean cruise after getting into a dispute with a travel companion, according to a company representative.

In 2011, Jackson was charged with drunken driving after she jumped out of an Olympia Fields squad car while handcuffed, police records show. They indicate that during the traffic stop, Jackson told police she was on Bad Girls Club and they should let her go, and after fleeing, she was found by police a short time later near the home of a friend still in handcuffs.

A Cook County judge later issued an arrest warrant after she failed to appear in court, and Jackson was later sentenced to court supervision and ordered to pay restitution.

A version of this article appeared in print on November 24, 2015, in the News section of the Chicago Tribune with the headline "Oxygen's `Judi Jai' agrees to plea deal - Olympia Fields woman charged in Feb. altercation" —
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